Carolina Basketball Camps: Roy Williams



Roy Williams, Head Coach





One of the nation's most respected basketball coaches, Roy Williams in 2007-08 will begin his fifth season at Carolina and his 20th overall as a head coach.
On April 2, 2007, Williams was named to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 2007.


On Dec. 9, 2006, he won his 500th game as a head coach, reaching the milestone in fewer seasons (19) than any other head coach in NCAA Division I history.
He was named the 2006 National and ACC Coach of the Year after losing the team's top seven scorers from the previous season and leading UNC to a 12-4 ACC record and No. 2 seed in the ACC Tournament.


Williams earned 2006 National Coach-of-the-Year honors from the Associated Press, the USBWA, the Rupp Award and SI.com. It was the sixth season after which Williams has been named National Coach of the Year.


Carolina ended the 2004-05 season with a national title and a 33-4 overall record, the sixth time Roy Williams has directed a team to 30 or more wins in a season and the fifth time he has led a team to the Final Four. The Tar Heels won the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 14-2 record, including a 6-2 mark on the road.
It was Williams' fifth appearance in the NCAA Final Four. His Kansas teams advanced to the Final Four in 1991, 1993, 2002 and 2003. Williams became the UNC coach on April 14, 2003, just one week after leading the Kansas Jayhawks to the NCAA championship game.


The 1972 Carolina graduate was an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2004 Olympics. Williams has coached teams that have won more than 80 percent of its games, his players have been exemplary student-athletes and his programs have been first-class in all aspects.




Williams joined the Tar Heels after leading Kansas to back-to-back appearances in the Final Four. He has led Kansas and Carolina to 18 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, the second-longest active streak in the country and the third-longest in NCAA Tournament history. Williams enters the 2007-08 season with a 524-131 record - a winning percentage of 80.0. His win percentage is No.1 among active coaches with 10 or more years and is fourth-best in history behind only Clair Bee (.826), Adolph Rupp (.822) and John Wooden (.805).


Williams secured his 400th win on Jan. 15, 2003, when Kansas defeated Wyoming, 98-70. He was the third-fastest coach in history to reach 300 wins and sped to 400 faster than all but three coaches in history (Rupp, Bee and Jerry Tarkanian). In fact, he has won more games than any coach after eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 seasons as a head coach.   He is the second-winningest Jayhawk coach in history behind Phog Allen.


Williams spent 10 seasons as an assistant coach under Smith at Carolina. From 1978-88, he helped coach such Tar Heel standouts as Mike O'Koren, Al Wood, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Matt Doherty, Michael Jordan, Brad Daugherty, Kenny Smith, Joe Wolf, Steve Hale, Jeff Lebo, J.R. Reid and Scott Williams.


At Kansas, Williams earned National Coach of the Year honors in 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1997 and was Big Eight/Big 12 Coach of the Year seven times. In 2003 he received the John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award by the Los Angeles Athletic Club.








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  • Roy Williams has posted a record of 524-131 in 19 seasons as a head coach and won the 2005 NCAA championship

  • 5 national titles (Helms Foundation in 1924, NCAA Tournament in 1957, 1982, 1993 and 2005)

  • NCAA-record 16 Final Four appearances

  • Second in NCAA history with more than 1,800 wins

  • Graduation rate of over 96 percent in the last four decades

  • 27 consecutive NCAA Tournament bids from 1975-2001, the longest streak in NCAA history

  • 92 NCAA Tournament victories, second-most in NCAA history

  • 39 NCAA Tournament appearances, third-most in NCAA history

  • 16 ACC Tournament championships

  • 80 ACC Tournament wins

  • 25 ACC regular-season titles, No. 1 in the ACC

  • 9 National Players of the Year

  • 44 All-Americas

  • 66 first-team All-ACC selections, No. 1 in the ACC

  • 12 players selected to the ACC's all-time 50 greatest players list, No. 1 in the ACC

  • Michael Jordan named greatest athlete in ACC history

  • 12 NBA players in 2006-07

  • 4 NBA lottery picks in 2005

  • 36 NBA first-round picks

  • 92 NBA draft choices

  • 5 NBA Rookies of the Year

  • 70 all-time NBA/ABA players

  • 3 players selected to the NBA's 50 Greatest Players list (Billy Cunningham, Michael Jordan, James Worthy)

  • Averaged over 20,000 fans per home game in the last 20 years
  • 8 Tar Heels in the Basketball Hall of Fame (coaches Ben Carnevale, Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, Roy Williams and Larry Brown and players Billy Cunningham, Bob McAdoo and James Worthy)

  • 12 Tar Heels have played in the Olympics

  • Carolina annually fields a junior varsity team that is made up of non-scholarship members of the student body

  • Dean Smith, the winningest coach in NCAA history with 879 wins

  • Roy Williams, the best winning percentage of any active NCAA coach

  • Roy Williams has led five teams to the NCAA Final Four